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August 27th 2023
Phase 3 findings showed that vorasidenib improved progression-free survival and time to next treatment in patients with IDH-mutant glioma.
Severe Hearing Loss from Pediatric Brain Tumor Treatment May Cause Cognitive Difficulties
May 13th 2019Children diagnosed with embryonal brain tumors who have experienced treatment-related hearing loss exhibited greater difficulties reading – in particular, with phonological skills and processing speed, according to study results.
Opdivo Plus Radiation Fails to Prolong Survival in Subtype of Glioblastoma
May 9th 2019The phase 3 CheckMate 498 trial, designed to compare Opdivo with Temodal for the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT)-unmethylated glioblastoma multiforme failed to meet its primary endpoint of increasing overall survival.
Expanded Access Program May Have Broad Use With Clinical Benefit
March 25th 2019The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Expanded Access program appeared to have broad use, involved a wide variety of patients and drugs, and derived clinical benefit, according to an initial summary published in JAMA Oncology.
Living in the Land of the Healthy
December 19th 2018When a diagnosis begins to improve, it is hard to reconcile your identity as a patient with your identity as a whole. Grappling with questions of who you are after having been diagnosed with something life altering can be both profound and challenging, and leave you a bit, well, ambivalent.
Brain and Nervous System Tumors
December 10th 2018As with cancers that affect the liver, cancers that hit the brain and nervous system can be broadly broken down into primary tumors and secondary tumors. A primary brain or nervous system tumor is one that arises from tissues in the brain and nervous system
Radiation Treatment May Impair Recent Memory in Pediatric Patients With Brain Tumors
September 24th 2018“Key brain regions that we know are typically involved in autobiographical memory formation and retrieval, especially the hippocampus, are located quite far from the primary tumor bed, and thus far from the site of focal radiation,” Sekeres, who is director of the Sekeres Memory Laboratory at Baylor University, said in an interview with CURE.